This was a great, great show, ranking right up there among the best I've ever seen in six years of watching this television crime series. They did it without their two main stars, too, as William Petersen was absent and Marg Helgenberger was only in one five-second scene. (Sometimes the show is better without those two.)
George Eads, who plays "Nick," was the star of this episode with Jorja Fox, as "Sara," a close second. It shows Nick as he is: the most compassionate and nicest character of the series. In this story, he makes it his mission to believe and to find - if possible - a missing young girl, when others think he's crazy even hoping she's still alive.
The little girl, her older brother and her two parents are all missing and presumed dead. The story is told in past-tense narration by "Cassie," the young girl.
It all begins in a nice, peaceful town outside Las Vegas, where a murder hasn't been committed in 10 years, according to the sheriff, who finds a nice house filled with blood and bloody footprints but no residents inside. Later, motive is discovered as we see a big marijuana-making greenhouse in the baseball with a all dried weed missing. That, bloody footprints and gum wrappers all help find who the killers are and where the bodies were dumped....but the main question for last third of the show is "was the little girl killed, too?" because her footprints and dead body are the only ones not found.
A thoughtful, riveting episode told in a unique manner and one of the few, if any, that almost brought a tear to my eyes in the end. I wish CSI would make more of these type of shows, meaning a straight crime story without all the sleaze in it.
George Eads, who plays "Nick," was the star of this episode with Jorja Fox, as "Sara," a close second. It shows Nick as he is: the most compassionate and nicest character of the series. In this story, he makes it his mission to believe and to find - if possible - a missing young girl, when others think he's crazy even hoping she's still alive.
The little girl, her older brother and her two parents are all missing and presumed dead. The story is told in past-tense narration by "Cassie," the young girl.
It all begins in a nice, peaceful town outside Las Vegas, where a murder hasn't been committed in 10 years, according to the sheriff, who finds a nice house filled with blood and bloody footprints but no residents inside. Later, motive is discovered as we see a big marijuana-making greenhouse in the baseball with a all dried weed missing. That, bloody footprints and gum wrappers all help find who the killers are and where the bodies were dumped....but the main question for last third of the show is "was the little girl killed, too?" because her footprints and dead body are the only ones not found.
A thoughtful, riveting episode told in a unique manner and one of the few, if any, that almost brought a tear to my eyes in the end. I wish CSI would make more of these type of shows, meaning a straight crime story without all the sleaze in it.